Wizards and Weapon Properties

**PhoeniX Skye** · 04-05-2012, 00:31

Hi there,

I played the beta during the open weekend, but I didn't quite notice... if your weapon has properties such as life leech or +1 cold damage (assuming these still exist in D3, not too sure), and you cast spells through it (as spell damage is from weapon damage now), would those properties affect the spell as if they were used in a melee attack?

If they do, would they affect AOE spells the same way? ie. Disintegrate would chill all enemies hit if your weapon had + cold damage?

Thanks!

**snowieken** · 04-05-2012, 08:30

This is unconfirmed and I have to leave for work, don't have the time to look it up, but if I recall correctly some affixes count and some don't. For instance, life leech won't apply but any elemental damage will, even though there will be no extra effect. So if there is cold damage, it will count as extra damage to the skill you are using but it won't have the added cold damage effect to for instance, a fire spell.

**flamebeerd** · 05-05-2012, 09:44

I don't have info on the life leech.

If the skill description states any damage type (as physical, as lightning, etc.) the skill wil only do that type of damage. Let's take Magic Missile as an example. If you have that +1 cold damage on your weapon, you will get the +1 damage but not the cold. You'll still be doing arcane damage.

If the skill does not have an inherent damage type (say, Spectral Blade) you'll have both the +1 damage and the cold effect.

**MRR** · 11-05-2012, 04:11

I'm fairly sure that, contrary to what snowieken suggests, life leech applies to any skill. flamebeerd has the right of it for elemental damage: you will get the bonus damage, but your skill will not do damage of that type if the skill itself has a particular type of damage.